Minisode: Mindy and Mary's Top 10 Books of 2021
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today's minisode has an additional top 10 list to add to your 2022 TBRs! We've got Mindy and Mary here with their favorite books of 2021, and their conversation is not-to-be-missed! Note that they recorded this episode before Meredith and Kaytee's released, so there are some repeats, but no one knew about the other's lists!
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Mindy and Mary's Top 10 Books of 2021
The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman (Mindy)
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Mary)
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner (Mindy)
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
Pony by R.J. Palacio (Mary)
Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Malloy (Mindy)
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (Mary)
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (Mindy)
The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Mary)
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Mindy)
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (Mary)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Mindy)
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (Mary)
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Mindy)
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo (Mary)
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (Mindy)
I Hope This Finds You Well by Kate Baer (Mary)
These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant (Mary & Mindy!)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Mindy)
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Mary)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Currently Reading Podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | We are bookish bus friends who spend the time every week talking about the books we |
| 0:16.0 | read recently and you should know. |
| 0:17.9 | We won't shy away from having strong opinions, so get ready. |
| 0:21.1 | We are light on the chitchat, heavy on the book talk, and our descriptions will always be |
| 0:24.8 | spoiler free. |
| 0:25.9 | Today we're talking about our top 10 books of 2021, and I'm so excited about it. |
| 0:30.9 | Me too. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Mindy Brouse, a mom of seven, reading and hiking in the mountains of New Mexico, |
| 0:35.6 | and revisiting favorite reads for the year makes me feel like I got to hang out with |
| 0:39.3 | 10 of my very best friends. |
| 0:41.5 | And I'm Mary Heim, a working mom of one, and I have had one of the best reading years |
| 0:47.2 | in a long, long time, and I am so, so excited to talk about my top 10 with you today, Mindy. |
| 0:52.8 | So excited we get to do this again, because last year was absolute blast. |
| 0:56.5 | I know. |
| 0:57.5 | And you brought me books I hadn't heard of, and I loved that. |
| 1:00.4 | And here we are, end of a really, you know, year, a year. |
| 1:04.9 | But we both had really great reading years, and looking back at these 10, made me realize |
| 1:08.8 | that. |
| 1:09.8 | It really brought me so much joy to go, wow, I read less this year, but these are some |
| 1:13.6 | really amazing books, and I'm really excited. |
| 1:16.1 | Yes, quality over quantity, for sure. |
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